Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The last Americana on Route 66.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.